Jerry Lacy

Jerry Lacy
Lacy as Rick Latimer on the set of Love of Life with guest star Sammy Davis, Jr., 1975
Born	Gerald LeRoy Lacy (1936-03-27) March 27, 1936 (age 80) Sioux City, Iowa
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Julia Duffy (1984–present)
Children	2

Gerald LeRoy "Jerry" Lacy (born March 27, 1936) is an American soap opera actor best known for playing the roles of Tony Peterson, Reverend Trask, Reverend Gregory Trask, Mr. Trask, and Lamar Trask on the cult TV serial Dark Shadows. He has also appeared on the following soap operas: The Secret Storm, As the World Turns (as Simon Gilbey), Love of Life (as Rick Latimer), and The Young and the Restless (as Jonas).

Lacy was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He played Humphrey Bogart in both the Broadway show and film version of Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam. During the 1970s Lacy appeared in the films House of Dark Shadows, The Money, and Blood Bath His other film roles included The Big G and Imps*, as well as the TV films Pleasure Cove, Fighting Back and Chiller. Lacy was offered the role of Rev. Trask in the second film based on Dark Shadows, Night of Dark Shadows, but at the time he was under contract with As the World Turns and his schedule on the show was too heavy for him to shoot the film. The character's name was changed to Rev. Strack and played by veteran actor and Dark Shadows co-star Thayer David.

He has been married to actress Julia Duffy since 1984 and they have two children. The couple met when they were both appearing on the CBS soap opera Love of Life. In the 1990s he appeared with his wife on the series Designing Women, as her character's (Allison Sugarbaker) ex-fiance, Barry, who dumped her at the altar and in 2005, in an episode of Drake & Josh (which aired in 2006), he appeared as Duffy's character's (Alice Hayfer) husband. He also wrote one of the episodes of Duffy's other comedy series, Newhart.